history test for 8th grade
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44 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Crusades | reclaim the holy lands from muslims renewed interest in trade; created a new middle class |
| renaissance | rebirth of art and learning |
| Reformation | restoring Christianity from the things that were wrong with the church |
| Christopher Columbus | thought he found a route to Asia, he was italian; sailed spain |
| Primary source | a record as it is first described |
| Secondary source | a restatement of an event like the Bible |
| Martin Luther | 95 thesis- Brought a revival of Biblical Christianity |
| Printing Press | Gutenberg; printing Bible |
| Francis Drake | first Englishman to sail around the world |
| London Company and Plymouth Company | joint stock companies |
| communal | belonging to the community |
| Amerigo Vespucci | America got its name from his; first to say 'new world' |
| Conquistadors | first spanish explorers gold glory and God |
| Ferdiand Magellan | first to sail around the world |
| invincible armada | defeat of the spanish armada; enabled christianity to come to america and other colonies |
| Roanoke | last colony; no one known what happened to them |
| Virginia Dare | first english colonist born in the new world |
| Joint Stock Companies | several bussinessmen invest in a company to pay for colonization. Forerunner of modern corporation. |
| jamestown | first permanent English settlement in the new world |
| common store | each man gave the fruit of his labor and put it into a common store and you could take as much as u needed out of it |
| Socialism | each man is entitled to receive food and supplies according to his needs like the common store |
| captain john smith | saved colony from self-destruction he said anyone who doesnt work wont eat |
| starving time | after john smith passed; they were forced to eat rats, mice, and dogs only 60 out of 500 survived the winter |
| john rolfe | introduced tobacco abandoned common store system; married poccahontas |
| Capitalism | free enterprise to own business and make living dependent on your own enterprise |
| free enterprise | capitalism |
| indentured servants | agreement whereby passage to america was paid by an establishment they worked for 4-7 years |
| precedent | happening that serves as an example to be followed in the future |
| House of Burgesses | delegates sent to jamestown ;advised governor of the colony |
| Bacon's Rebellion | bacon and friends protested against the government for Jamestown to help all people |
| Puritans | wanted to purify the church from within |
| city on a hill | example to the world |
| separatists | wanted to withdrawal completely from the church of england |
| pilgrims | mayflower, 1620 |
| mayflower compact | express willingness of people to have a government and submit to its authority ; agreement happened before they left mayflower |
| william bradford | governor of plymouth colony, got rid of common store system and established free enterprise system |
| role of education in colonies | teach children to read the bible |
| Colonial era | from founding of jamestown until the revolutionary war 1607-1668 |
| southern colonies | farming, fertile soil, warm climate, long growing season |
| middle colonies | farming known as the bread colony, hunting, and trapping |
| new england | not suited for agriculture shipbuilding, lumber |
| protestant work ethic | belief that all men are called to work all work has a sense of nobolity |
| anglican church | the official church of england |
| subsistence farmer | grew just enough food to feed their families |
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